Globe for lamps.



NIL-755,283. PATENTED MAR. 22, 1904. R. M. DIXON.

GLOBE FOR LAMPS.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 12, 1902.

N0 MODEL.

WITNESSES I //V VE N T01? A Tron/v5 rs Patented March 22, 1904.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT M. DIXON, OE EAST ORANGE, 'NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO THE SAFETY OARHEATING & LIGHTING COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

GLOBE FOR LAMPS- SPEGIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No.755,283, dated March 22, 1904.

Application filed February 12, 1902. Serial No. 93,712. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known thatI, ROBERT M. DIXON, a citiv zen of the United States,and a resident of East Orange, Essex county, New Jersey, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Globes for Lamps, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention relates to globes for lamps, and has particular referenceto globes suitable for use on car-lamps.

In the accompanying drawings I have shown a globe in which one form ofmy invention is embodied,

In the drawings, Figure I is a side view of the globe, and Fig. II is asection view thereof.

In the drawings, a indicates the body of the globe, and in using theterm globe I desire to be understood as also including forms'other thanglobular. The globe is shown in the present instance as entirely closedat the bottom and provided at the top with an abrupt inwardly-turned lipor portion-b, adapted to enter a bezel or ring and to be engaged byclasps from within.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, 1s

1. As a new and useful article of manufacture, a globe for car-lampsconsisting of the translucent body a closed at its bottom and having atits upper edge an abruptly-inturned circumferential lip 6 arranged to beengaged by claspsv from within. a

2. As a new and useful article of manufacture, a globe for car-lampsconsisting of a bowl-shaped body and having at its upper edge anabruptly-inturned circumferential lip arranged to be engaged by claspsfrom within, the said lip bounding the open space at the top of theglobe.

ROBERT M. DIXON. Witnesses:

B. P. VAN PRAAG, J. D. LoBB, Jr.

